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enICSIA Conference 2018: Combating CSI Effect, Shoestring Budgets, and the American Sniper Murderhttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/03/icsia-conference-2018-combating-csi-effect-shoestring-budgets-and-american-sniper-murder
This year’s International Crime Scene Investigators Association conference is in Nashville from May 15 to 17, and will be bringing presentations on the...03/15/2018 - 1:22pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22440Case Study: A Death Mystery in an Indiana Barn Solved by Spotshttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/03/case-study-death-mystery-indiana-barn-solved-spots
What was first determined to be a suspicious-looking death, potentially a sexual-assault homicide, eventually was determined to be a tragic accident, according...03/14/2018 - 12:48pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22435Houston Forensic Science Center Slides Blind Testing Into Workloadhttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/03/houston-forensic-science-center-slides-blind-testing-workload
Can sliding in blind samples amid the workload at a forensic laboratory test how well the work is going? Can it also help raise standards, by keeping analysts...03/13/2018 - 12:22pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22427DNA Mixture on Rope from 1994 Murder Could Exonerate 2 Prisonershttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/03/dna-mixture-rope-1994-murder-could-exonerate-2-prisoners
A DNA mixture on a piece of bloody rope found near a woman’s body alongside a Montana road in 1994 could mean a huge reversal of fortune for three men, experts...03/12/2018 - 1:04pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22422Ex-NASCAR Driver Indicted for Attempting to Entice Minorhttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/03/ex-nascar-driver-indicted-attempting-entice-minor
A former NASCAR driver was indicted by a federal grand jury for trying to set up a sexual encounter with what he believed to be a 12-year-old girl and her...03/09/2018 - 1:01pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22416Amelia Earhart’s Bones Were Those Discovered in 1940: Studyhttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/03/amelia-earharts-bones-were-those-discovered-1940-study
A set of remains found on the island of Nikumaroro in 1940 was likely Amelia Earhart’s all along, writes a University of Tennessee–Knoxville biometrics expert.03/08/2018 - 1:39pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22412New Mexico Study of Strangulation Deaths Points to Value of CT Scans at Autopsyhttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/03/new-mexico-study-strangulation-deaths-points-value-ct-scans-autopsy
The National Institutes of Justice published a recent study citing the use of computed tomography (CT) scans to speed up work amidst a staggering case load of...03/07/2018 - 10:16amby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22403Michigan Mulling NamUs Law, Requiring Immediate Police Reportinghttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/03/michigan-mulling-namus-law-requiring-immediate-police-reporting
Michigan’s House of Representatives passed a bill that would require law enforcement to enter the state’s missing and unidentified bodies into the National...03/06/2018 - 1:20pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22393NIJ Advocates for CT Scans to Assist Forensic Pathologistshttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/03/nij-advocates-ct-scans-assist-forensic-pathologists
It’s well documented that there aren’t enough forensic pathologists—with some estimates showing the U.S. has only half of the staffing that’s really required...03/05/2018 - 1:42pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22384Case Study: A Beach Umbrella Impalement in Virginiahttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/03/case-study-beach-umbrella-impalement-virginia
A horrific death on a sunny beach was investigated by scientists, and determined to be a freak accident, according to a paper presented in the latest Journal...03/02/2018 - 1:05pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22378DOJ’s Fingerprint Uniform Language is Part of ‘Constant Evolution,’ Says IAIhttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/03/dojs-fingerprint-uniform-language-part-constant-evolution-says-iai
The Department of Justice rolled out “uniform language” last week in how federal fingerprints experts should tell juries about what they found in the minutest...03/01/2018 - 1:30pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22372DNA Mixtures of Victim, Attacker on Guns Land Indiana Man 14 Felony Convictionshttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/dna-mixtures-victim-attacker-guns-land-indiana-man-14-felony-convictions
Forensic evidence in a rape case that resulted in 14 felony convictions for one perpetrator and a guilty plea from another included a complex DNA mixture on...02/28/2018 - 1:27pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22364AAFS 2018: Hotels and Motels Have More Unnatural Deathshttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/aafs-2018-hotels-and-motels-have-more-unnatural-deaths
The guest rooms of hotels and motels present a higher proportion of unnatural deaths—and should be particularly scrutinized by death investigators, according...02/27/2018 - 12:52pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22358AAFS 2018: Hair Proteins Under the Microscopehttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/aafs-2018-hair-proteins-under-microscope
Forensic science has been looking at the hardy structure of the hair shafts everyone sheds as being a potential game-changer at crime scenes and archaeological...02/26/2018 - 1:04pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22350AAFS 2018: Science-Packed Thursday Includes Dismemberments, NIST Pitching Scientific Reviewhttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/aafs-2018-science-packed-thursday-includes-dismemberments-nist-pitching-scientific-review
The preliminaries, banquets and business meetings in the books, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences held a whirlwind of scientific sessions on Thursday.02/23/2018 - 11:25amby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22340AAFS 2018: Deputy AG Rosenstein Announces New Federal Forensic Initiativeshttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/aafs-2018-deputy-ag-rosenstein-announces-new-federal-forensic-initiatives
The Department of Justice is proceeding with a series of initiatives to improve the empirical foundations of forensic sciences, U.S. Deputy Attorney General...02/22/2018 - 11:08amby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22335Familial Searching DNA Tests Challenged in New York by Legal Aid Societyhttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/familial-searching-dna-tests-challenged-new-york-legal-aid-society
A growing number of states have used familial searching of DNA databases to assist criminal investigations. One of the latest was New York, whose Commissions...02/20/2018 - 12:14pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22327California’s Prop 57 Sex Offender Release Regs Are Void, Court Ruleshttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/californias-prop-57-sex-offender-release-regs-are-void-court-rules
The centerpiece of California's Proposition 57 was to allow release of those convicted of “nonviolent felony offenses” after they had served their full prison...02/16/2018 - 1:43pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22315Child Porn Search Warrant Yields Body Stuffed in Totehttps://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/child-porn-search-warrant-yields-body-stuffed-tote
Local Colorado police served a search warrant on an apartment in Trinidad, Colo., on Tuesday as part of an ongoing “computer crime investigation,” potentially...02/15/2018 - 1:17pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22310Could Time of Death Be Sequenced from RNA Expression?https://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/could-time-death-be-sequenced-rna-expression
The changes wrought in RNA of certain tissues in the recently-dead can be a critical marker to determine post-mortem interval, according a paper by a Spanish...02/14/2018 - 12:25pmby <a href="/staff-author/seth-augenstein">Seth Augenstein</a>22305